Joint Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and are organized by The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall and Princeton University in the Spring. Details on the current colloquiums can be found below. Coffee provided 10:30am to 11:00am before the start of the lecture. The Joint Astrophysics Colloquium is immediately followed by the Bahcall Lunch. 

For questions about a speaker's visit to The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall, please contact Alexander J. Dittmann, Biwei Dai, or Amanda Cenker.

For questions about a speaker's visit to Princeton University the Spring, please contact:  or Mami Akiyama

Videos of past talks at the IAS can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.

Colloquia Archives

Current Colloquium Schedule

Mar
31
2026

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Searching for supermassive black hole binaries
Maria Charisi
11:00am|Peyton Hall Auditorium

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) should be common in galactic nuclei as a result of frequent galaxy mergers. Yet they remain undetectable, especially during the final stage of their evolution. At this stage, SMBHBs are expected to emit...

Apr
07
2026

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

On the Origins of Cosmic Rays
Damiano Caprioli
11:00am|Peyton Hall Auditorium

The origin of extraterrestrial energetic particles ("cosmic rays") has puzzled scientists since the pioneering discovery by Victor Hess in 1912. In the last decade, however, modern supercomputers and multi-wavelength observations have opened new...